Link user field with ticket field

I have "User Device" drop-down field in my custom ticket field. The agent or user will fill this field when they work on the ticket. I also have "User Device" drop-down field in my custom user field. This will stick to user. There should be a way to Auto fill the user field if the agent updates the ticket field.

Hi all, not sure if this helps but sharing anyway in case someone is looking to have a connection between user field and ticket field working the other way around where user field will populate a ticket field automatically.

An example.

You have a user field "Country" that has an option "Netherlands" with tag "netherlands" and comes through automatically or is added to all your users from the Netherlands.

You can create a custom ticket field "Country" with the same option "Netherlands" and the same tag "netherlands" so when a ticket is created by a user from the Netherlands for example, the ticket field "country" will automatically get populated as "Netherlands".

This solution helped us get better grouping and ticket info in our views which we were not able to achieve with just the regular user/ticket tags.

I doubt that this will work the other way around so that ticket field will update a user field with the same value.

Hi, is Zendesk planning on adding this feature? Our agents add a user ID to a ticket, but I'd like the custom user field to get updated then as well. So the condition is: custom ticket field = present > action is: custom user field = custom ticket field.

It's not possible using triggers now, as all the ID numbers are unique and adding a tag has no sense, unfortunately!

We haven't seen a large number of requests for this at this point in time. However, we are continuing to collect votes and detailed use-cases to see whether this is something that would be of high impact and value for a significant number of customers.

Please register your vote with the voting arrows on the original post, a "+1" comment neither registers as a vote nor gives Product Managers any useful details about why you need this, how it would impact your business, etc. That information is, however, very helpful, and I encourage you to share more details with us.

We also found this solution to populate a tickets form fields through the keywords added to a ticket from the user. However, unfortunately this does only work for dropdown or checkboxes. When it comes to textfields, it obviously has no chance anymore, because there is no data transport. I installed the app "User data", however it does not show anything in custom user fields. So info we import into zendesk, can't be seen anymore. Also clicking on the user to check these details is greatly dropping the ticket solving time. Instead seeing everything at a glance, we need to click on the user, check there, wait the zendesktypical loading times and close the view again. It could be so easy though.

This is an absolute must-have for us. Not being able to connect these fields is disrupting our ability to integrate Zendesk into the rest of our organization's data ecosystem, and it not only hampers our support operations, but also prevents the accurate reporting we depend on in this growth phase.

I checked in with the product team, and they said that while this is not something currently being worked on, this conversation has caught their attention and the next time they have an opportunity to explore new ideas for future development this is a request they will revisit.

In the meantime, there is one way to accomplish what's being described here via the triggers functionality. It's a bit cumbersome to implement as you have to create a separate trigger for each field relationship, but it will get the job done:

Trigger condition: [first custom a field] is [value from custom field dropdown]

Trigger action: [second custom field] [second custom field value]

If your two lists aren't too long, this would work to link your two fields.

Hopefully that helps some of you, and we will follow up if and when the product team is able to dig into this request. Thank you as always for your feedback and for bringing this need to our team's attention!

I would like to see a way to do this the other way around. Without manual work. A ticket being able to update the usersetting. It seems there is no way currently. Would be good if a trigger or something could do that.

The thing is, that the automatic language recognition of zendesk is pretty randomly. So often the language is wrong which is why dc-language recognition is something we can't really use. However, we have a contact form field "preferred language". We can read the contents in there in a trigger. So we can serve the user with the language he awaits. However, that's only valid when that is the source of contact. When he sends an email we only would have the language in the account.

So the idea is to edit the user language once a ticket came through the contact form with preferred language, since we would know that this is the correct language. So rather than knowing the language in this single ticket, we would like to either edit the language itself in the user account or add a language tag there.